Abstract: A method for managing encoding of an input multimedia content stream is proposed, which comprises: obtain a primary configuration used for encoding the input multimedia content stream for generating a primary channel; determine, based on the primary configuration, a redundancy configuration for encoding the input multimedia content stream for generating a redundancy channel; and encode the input multimedia content stream according to the redundancy configuration to generate the redundancy channel, wherein the encoding of the input multimedia content stream according to the redundancy configuration uses less resources than resources used for encoding the input multimedia content stream according to the primary configuration, and wherein the redundancy configuration is determined for distributing the redundancy channel through a distribution network in place of the primary channel upon occurrence of a failure in the encoding of the input multimedia content stream for generating the primary channel.

Abstract: A method for managing computational resources allocated for encoding of one or more multimedia content streams for distribution in dynamic mode to viewing devices through a distribution network is proposed, which comprises, by a processing node of the distribution network: obtain, for a multimedia content stream corresponding to a channel distributed to the viewing devices, a value of a computational resource allocation criterion, wherein the computational resource allocation criterion comprises an audience measurement for the corresponding channel; and determine, based on the computational resource allocation criterion, an allocation of computational resources of a computing platform configured for encoding the multimedia content stream.

Abstract: A method for managing computational resources allocated for encoding of one or more multimedia content streams for distribution in dynamic mode to viewing devices through a distribution network is proposed, which comprises, by a processing node of the distribution network: obtain, for a multimedia content stream corresponding to a channel distributed to the viewing devices, a value of a computational resource allocation criterion, wherein the computational resource allocation criterion comprises an audience measurement for the corresponding channel and a video content complexity of the multimedia content stream; and determine, based on the computational resource allocation criterion, an allocation of computational resources of a computing platform configured for encoding the multimedia content stream.

Abstract: A method for managing encoding of multimedia content stored in a file is proposed, which comprises: determining, using a supervised learning algorithm, a prediction of processing resources required for encoding the multimedia content, based on one or more multimedia content characteristics of the multimedia content and on one or more multimedia content encoding parameters for encoding the multimedia content; and determining a processing configuration for encoding the multimedia content based on the prediction of processing resources.

Abstract: A computer-implemented resource allocation method is provided, which comprises, in a computing environment comprising a resource management unit and a cluster comprising a cluster management node and a cluster node running an application program: receiving, by the resource management unit, a request for allocating one or more system resources to the application program; retrieving, by the resource management unit, from the cluster management node, an identifier of the cluster node running the application program; dynamically updating system physical resources allocated to the cluster node by updating a resource allocation file managed by an operating system of a computing machine on which the cluster is running, based on the identifier of the cluster node and the received request.